Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.
so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth be
It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living
I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may retu
As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart s
The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.
My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.
But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received b
Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will lo
Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”
Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give the
They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters,
It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.
My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.